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Kong

Developer Tools — Management layer for microservices and APIs [Web App, API, Tech]
Developer Toolssaasest. 2015
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 17.6 · 2/4
17.6
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
8
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 1907 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
konghq.com
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#2,095,207
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Kong's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://konghq.com/) when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. Its Pulse Index is 17.6 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 8 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Finally.iodev-toolssimilar88%— unverified
Space Cloud - Backend as a Servicedev-toolssimilar88%0.00.0■ inactive
Astronomeranalyticstag-overlap88%46.40.0— unverified
DevRavendev-toolssimilar78%8.00.0— unverified
Notification Harbordev-toolssimilar78%40.00.0● live
Epsagondev-toolssimilar78%9.10.0— unverified
SynapseFifinancetag-overlap78%9.20.0— unverified
10Duke Entitlement Servicedev-toolssimilar78%10.30.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-28 00:23Z200getkong.org → konghq.com1194redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 14:18Z200getkong.org → konghq.com1564redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 00:52Z200getkong.org → konghq.com2198redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 06:48Z200getkong.org → konghq.com2694redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 19:05Z200getkong.org → konghq.com3300redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 18:20Z200getkong.org → konghq.com1460redirected_offsite
2026-07-23 09:44Z200getkong.org → konghq.com2225redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 08:54Z200getkong.org → konghq.com1049redirected_offsite
2026-07-11 09:07Z200getkong.org → konghq.com3161redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 13:04Z200getkong.org → konghq.com1977redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 14:13Z200getkong.org → konghq.com1988redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:18Z200getkong.org → konghq.com244redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:18Z200getkong.org → konghq.com2059redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 05:07Z200getkong.org → konghq.com1590redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Kong · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/kong-2 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.